SMUGGLING OF DRUGS FROM THAILAND TO COMMUNIST CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007300480004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 20, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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:.NWVORMATION REPO
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There is unusual. quiet in tllre Chinese ausines corar?ain ty in ,~angko: and
.x ar".et prices have r-raatrled stable,
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Smuggling of L 'rugs from Thailand to
o_ rauniA China
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s3anngkok merchants are smuggling medicines, in )articular penicillin, to
Cotzlunist China via along Kong. The medicines are shipped to Ilong atom; on
,Eight flights from Don "uanL; airport. Plane loads are valued up to 100,000
baht (approximately u ; :,`5,000) and a 100 percent profit is realized on
each shipment,
The shi,)monts ar ; arranged through corrupt junior Customs Officers on night
duty at the Don ? Iuan7 airport. The chief Customs Officer at Don uang is
strict in his enforcement of custnu:ls re" ulations, but is on duty only duxi.r4;
tlo day.
3. ;n i portaut coilpa ny in the snuggling of drugs to Col.,ztunist C ina via 'I017i;
=er r i s the vhinese firm of L Al
4educed sufficient evidence to indict the fix", a private suttlonent has
on glade out of court. as pa.?t, of the setticuent, the fin.i agreed to ;atop
;s shin`; ;ling activities,
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Class. Chitngad T : TS S C
Aarth.: &'~-6073004000
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA- 802-5